Garou
Work in progress: Garou is being built toward this design, and current game behavior differs in places.
Garou are Gaea's werewolf children: protectors, predators, spirits, and warning teeth. They carry rage and duty in the same body.
In Play
Garou embodies Gaea's animal judgment.
- Read the room through scent, instinct, and balance
- Choose the right form for the work
- Build Rage through danger, pain, pursuit, and threat
- Spend Rage on decisive violence, protection, or spiritual answers
- Calm down before the Rage owns the body
Forms
| Form | Use |
|---|---|
| Human | Social presence, tools, speech, restraint |
| Wolf | Scent, chase, tracking, speed, instinct |
| Crinos | Fear, raw physical dominance, open violence |
| Spirit-Touched | Shamanic perception and balance rites |
Changing form is a commitment: wolf hunts, Crinos breaks, human speaks and uses tools.
Rage
Rage rises from pain, pursuit, corruption, pack defense, denial, moon pull, howls, roars, and form shifts. It gives stronger attacks, faster pursuit, and refusal moments. Too much Rage narrows judgment.
Pack
Pack is social memory: warnings, remembered targets, territory, pursuit, carrying, defense, and shared answers to corruption.
Dedication
Every Garou leans toward a duty.
| Dedication | Use |
|---|---|
| Warrior | Direct combat, Rage, chase, finishing work |
| Guardian | Protection, interception, pack defense |
| Shaman | Spirit sense, balance rites, corruption answers |
Moon And Balance
Moon state matters as instinct and omen. Balance reads corruption, spiritual sickness, and broken natural order.
Abilities
| Ability | Use |
|---|---|
| Transform | Changes form |
| Scent | Reads trails and nearby presence |
| Howl | Warns, rallies, challenges, or terrifies |
| Chase | Pursues a target through nearby spaces |
| Bite and Claw | Form-based attacks with instinct behind them |
| Carry | Moves allies or prey in wolf logic |
| Balance | Reads corruption or spiritual imbalance |
| Remember | Marks people, places, and pack history |
| Enrage | Builds Rage on purpose |
| Facedown | Forces a dominance contest |
Pack Commands
| Command | Use |
|---|---|
garou, ghist | Speaks on the Garou channel or reviews history |
transform, towolf | Changes form |
scent, sense, wsmell | Reads trails, nearby presence, or wolf senses |
howl, roar | Warns, rallies, challenges, or terrifies |
rage, enrage | Reviews or builds Rage |
chase, leap, lunge | Pursues or closes distance |
fbite, fclaw, slam | Uses form attacks |
carry | Moves a target in wolf form |
pack, remember | Reviews pack state or marks memory |
balance, judge | Reads spiritual condition |